BOYS' SOCCER: Gettysburg takes down Waynesboro, 3-0

The Waynesboro Indian soccermen played Gettysburg on even terms until midway through the opening half and then two goals in a minute and 18 seconds propelled the Warriors to a 3-0 Mid-Penn Colonial Division shutout win.

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Waynesboro Record Herald - Waynesboro, PA

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Posted Sep. 6, 2013 at 10:00 AM

Posted Sep. 6, 2013 at 10:00 AM

WAYNESBORO — The Waynesboro Indian soccermen played Gettysburg on even terms until midway through the opening half and then two goals in a minute and 18 seconds propelled the Warriors to a 3-0 Mid-Penn Colonial Division shutout win.

The first Gettysburg score came with 21:07 left in the half as Jonah Waldkoening slipped through the Indian defense and tapped a short grounder into the right corner from the left post.

With 19:49 remaining in the half, Waynesboro (1-1, 1-1 MPC-Colonial) players thought a ball was out of bounds, but there was no whistle and play continued with the ball going off an Indian player and into the cage.

The final G-burg counter came with just 16 seconds left in the game when a floater got over Lochstampfor.

“Offensively, we need to do much better,” first-year head coach and former Indian player Brian Stum said. “We really didn’t get a good, quality shot. The group played a hard game. I can’t take that from them. Some simple mistakes cost us.”

Although the Indians didn’t have many solid shots at the Gettysburg net, they did have some good runs that went unrewarded.

Just four minutes into the game, Indian Michael Ochoa delivered a long pass to Camry Huff breaking along the left sideline. However, Gettysburg keeper Michael Heeschen came out to beat Huff to the ball.

A minute later, the Warriors challenged when Trey Thomas shot wide of the left post from the left side.

A couple of minutes later, Lochstampfor blocked away a short hard shot by Paul Brown.

Waynesboro countered with another Ochoa to Huff pass, but again Heeschen broke up the play for the Warriors.

With 25 minutes left in the half, Indians Quinton Perry and Conor Short made back-to-back defensive stops to keep the Waynesboro net clean.

With the Warriors pressing the attack, Perry cleared the ball from charging Orihuela and Lochstampfor caught a high hit in front of Brown.

Following the two quick G-burg goals, Lochstampfor went to the ground twice to collect shots by Orihuela and Adam Yingling.

Short delivered a long free kick that the Gettysburg keeper grabbed at the left post.

Of the Warriors, Stum noted, “We match up well against them. It should not have been a 3-0 game. We had mistakes; they capitalized.

“You can’t take anything from them. They’re a well-coached, disciplined team and we came out on the short end of the stick. But we’ll work harder and get them next time. We have good team chemistry and team leadership.”

Page 2 of 2 - In the early going of the second half, Short defended well to stop several Gettysburg attacks.

Eleven minutes into the half, Lochstampfor made a good play on a free kick by Bobby Weikert as he came out from between the posts to punch the ball away from two Gettysburg players.

Indian Cody Motz nearly had a breakaway, but Weikert was able get back in time to prevent a shot with 22 minutes left.

Then, John Atkinson ripped an outside shot that the Gettysburg keeper grabbed at the left post.

Indian Sawyer Clever, in the closing minutes, blocked a short shot at the right post by Collin Holt.